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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1973-02-01

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1973-02-01, page 01

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Serving Columbus, "Central" and Southwestern Ohio
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VOL. 51 NO. 5
FEBRUARY 1. 1973 — SHEVAT 29'
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First UJFC Function Raises Over V2 Million
DETROIT (WNS)-Jewish and non-Jewish campus groups have attacked the publication in "South End," the Wayne State University student daily, of a series of strongly anti-Israel articles, the last of which was embellished with a swastika superimposed on a Star of David to illustrate the writer's allegation that Israel was emulating Nazi methods in the treatment of ; / Arabs. The series was written by Rev. John Nicholls / Booth, interim: minister at the First Unitarian- Universalist Church here. v i'S
NEW YORK"CWrJS)-Jewish and non-Jewish professors, rabbis, and Coretta ScottKingspeaking on behalf of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation, last week eulogized the late Rabbi Abraham Heschel as a • distinguished,thinker and scholar.. Israeli President Zalman Shazar sent a message from Israel saying he was an "aristocrat in spirit." Mrs. King called the Rabbi "One of the great men of our times," and in an apparent reference to President Nixon said, "In a day when we have a would-be emporor and king' 'Heschel's voice will be missed. William D. Davies, professor of ■. Christian Origins at Duke University, delivered a eulogy on behalf of the "non-Jewish world" and praised Heschel's public outcry against repression of minorities in the United States and against the Viet¬ nam war. ~ r-
NEW YORK (WNS)-The Soviet Union apparently has no intention of rescinding the education tax levied on emigrants with academic degrees, observers here said. They said the first official publication in Moscow,, , 0. this week of the diploma tax law adopted August 3 and the regulations governing the scale of payments, in effect since Dec. 26, seems to indicate the Kremlin does not intend to back down in face of widespread criticism.. As long as it remained unpublished, they said, Soviet authorities could have cancelled the tax without loss of face.
The published regulations indicate that the school from which an emigrant graduated also determines the amount of the tax. The highest tax is demanded of graduates of Moscow University, the Soviet Union's most prestigious institution of higher learning.
Jewish Leaders Express Sorrow At President Johnson Death
NEW YORK, (JTA)» American Jewish leaders expressed shock and sorrow . at the death of former President Johnson. They were unanimous in their praise of Johnson as a man who greatly aided Israel. . The Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, speaking at a ■farewell gathering; spon- ' sored by the National J Committee for Labor Israel, i said Johnson was "one of the presidents who have done so much in support of Israel." American Jewish Com¬ mittee president Philip E. Hoffman said "the Jewish community has united in its admiration of Mr. Johnson's deep humanity, especially appreciating his support of Israel during its most trying hours."
American ' Zionist Federation president Rabbi Israel Miller said "President Johnson will be remembered by Zionists everywhere as the man, who once con¬ vinced of the rightoess of Israel's cause, remained steadfast in his support of
Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the American Section of the World Zionist Organization, said "We Jews knew him (Johnson) as a man of tolerance who always advocated quality for all
peoples and as a true friend of Israel who believed in its strength was the best guarantee of Middle East peace." j.
Mrs. Rose E. Matzkin, president of Hadassah, sent a telegram of condolence to Mrs. Johnson on behalf' of Hadassah's 325,000 mem¬ bers. At a memorial service in Hadassah House for the late President, Mrs. Matzkin noted his friendship for brad and understanding of its problems. She observed that during the Six-Day War, his firm support at that time was a dramatic demon¬ stration of U.S. com¬ mittment to the security and integrity of the Jewish State.
B'nai B'rith Anti- Defamation League national chairman Seymour Graubard said Johnson "understood the significance of Israel to American Jews as well as their commitment to human rights. His leadership. in achieving historic civil rights legislation put into law the guarantees which, Jews and all minorities sought in order; to fulfill the promise of the American Dream."
Zionist Organization of America president Herman L. Weisman said "Zionists will particularly remember
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
. The 1973 Campaign of the United Jewish Fund and Council was kicked off on Thursday evening, Jan. 11, at a meeting held at the home of-Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Melton. The gifts. of the gathering of 26 key leaders and donors totaled $545,000. This was the largest total ever announced for so many gifts, representing $90,000 of additional funds beyond that contributed by the same people last year.
The meeting was called by Ernest Stern, 1973 Campaign Chairman, and Millard Cummins, Advance Gifts Chairman to learn of the' concerns which confront1 Columbus and World Jewry. The 1973 story was presented by Dr. Bernard Cherrick, Executive Vice President of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Dr. Cherrick reviewed the history of the State of Irael for the past 25 years, tracing its development from the early 40's _until_now^JfIe-, "re1rrunae3"everyone that its formation was necessitated by the holocaust which befell European Jewry during World War II, and that the formal creation of the State of Israel might not have come to fruition at that time if the British and Arabs bad not closed the doors to the immigrants who sought refuge there. That challenge continued'as the decades of theSO's, 60's and 70's brought waves of Jewish immigrants from the oppressed coun¬ tries of the world to Israel in search of freedom. HeA pointed out that major catastrophes had been avoided for the large
numbers of North African, Syrian, Iraqi, arid Yeminite Jews who fled to Israel whenever the gates of these countries were • opened, avoiding the poverty, tor¬ ture, and persecution now being experienced by those who remained.
Dr. Cherrick stated: "Who knows but that this same situation will be avoided
again by those Russian Jews r who are making the decision to come to Israel now. The miracle of Russian Jewry being allowed to leave, ' cannot be explained, along with the miracle of how the Jews of Russia, alienated from their religion, have suddenly come back to Judaism and courageously choose to be subjected to
harrassment, loss of jobs, and persecution because they request visa's to go to Israel. We must not fail them. That is why the challenge of the 70's is the greatest challenge of all." He further explained that the reason the 1973 goal of the United Jewish Appeal is so large is because there has
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
Pictured above are scenes from the Special Gifts Meeting, held on January 11, at home of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Melton.
PARTICIPANTS IN PROGRAM: (top left) Left to right: Millard Cummins, Advance 'Gifts Chairman; Mrs. Samuel M. Melton, Hostess; Dr. Bernard Cherrick, Executive Vice President Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Samuel M. Melton, Host; Ernest Stern, General Chairman 1973 Campaign. , '
LEADERSHIP ATTENDING MELTON MEETING (top right): Left to right: Edwin M. Ellman,Melvin Schottenstein, Robert Click, Leon Handler and John B. Resler.
1973 ADVANCE GIFTS CO-CHAIRMAN (bottom left): Edwin M. Ellman, Dr. Bernard Cherrick, Executive Vice President of Hebrew University; Envin Cohen, Dr.B.B. Caplan, Louis Robins, not present. ;;;%' if.
PAST UJFC CAMPAIGN CHAIRMEN at MELTON MEETING;(bottom right): Seated Left to Right: Speaker of the evening, Dr. Bernard Cherrick; Abel. Yenkin, Gordon B. Zacks: Standing Left to Right: William L. Click, Marvin L. Glassman, Morris Skilken, Norman Meizlish and Ernest Stern.
RABBIS REACT
Abortion Ruling
Different Views
by BILL COHEN
CHRONICLE
SPECIAL REPORTER
' Columbus-area rabbis have several different views of abortion, according to an informal poll by The Chronicle, following last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that states have no right to restrict abortions during trie •first three months of pregnancy.
The ruling, by a 7-2 margin, ■;. declared that present abortion law in Texas and Georgia is un¬ constitutional. In effect, the decision also appeared to do the same to Ohio's similar restrictions on abortion.
■ f'The traditional Jewish stand on abortions is that it is only permissable to save the life of the mother," said Rabbi Jeff Siegal, the Chassidic Orthodox rabbi at the Hillel Foundation. "Although not considered'
murder," Siegal continued, "it is the destruction of potential life which is, in and of itself, precious."
Siegal called on unmarried Jewish women who become pregnant to go ahead and have their baby "since, especially in the Jewish community, there is such a demand for children for
adoption. There is a tremendous shortage, and any child that is given birth would be adopted into a loving, home," he added.
Asked about the apparent contradiction between traditional Jewish law against abortion and general Jewish support for liberalized abortion' laws,
Siegal explained, "Jewish tradition has always been in favor of the Jew being in the vanguard of social action and change. However, most Jews today are not that theologically interested and . knowledgable in Jewish law. Culturally, though, they receive the tradition of
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
Court Will Hear Appeal On Parochial Law
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Jan. 22 to hear an appeal against a New York State parochial law. The Com¬ mittee for Public Education ' and Religious - Liberty . (PEARL) said it was "deeply gratified" by the high court's action. The appeal stems from the case of PEARL v. Nyquist (N.Y. State Education Com¬ missioner Ewald Nyquist), The PEARL suit was aimed at a three-part law enacted
by the State Legislature and signed by Gov. Rockefeller in May, , 1972i
Two parts of the law, ruled unconstitutional by a FederaP District Court, last October, provided building maintenance grants of up to $4 million a year for repairs, heat, light and cleaning for nonpublic schools in densely populated urban areas; and provided direct state payments of $50 per elementary school pupil and $100 per secondary school
pupil to' low income parochial school parents.
The PEARL appeal which the Supreme Court has agreed to hear, is against the third part of the law, upheld by the Federal Court, which provides income tax credits for middle income parents of parochial school1 children. According to the law, families with incomes between $5000425,000 a year could deduct up to $3000 from their taxable income in
(CONTINUED ON PAGET 71
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?S
Serving Columbus, "Central" and Southwestern Ohio
iiri'1
VOL. 51 NO. 5
FEBRUARY 1. 1973 — SHEVAT 29'
trvttrd is a«rrttin
First UJFC Function Raises Over V2 Million
DETROIT (WNS)-Jewish and non-Jewish campus groups have attacked the publication in "South End," the Wayne State University student daily, of a series of strongly anti-Israel articles, the last of which was embellished with a swastika superimposed on a Star of David to illustrate the writer's allegation that Israel was emulating Nazi methods in the treatment of ; / Arabs. The series was written by Rev. John Nicholls / Booth, interim: minister at the First Unitarian- Universalist Church here. v i'S
NEW YORK"CWrJS)-Jewish and non-Jewish professors, rabbis, and Coretta ScottKingspeaking on behalf of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation, last week eulogized the late Rabbi Abraham Heschel as a • distinguished,thinker and scholar.. Israeli President Zalman Shazar sent a message from Israel saying he was an "aristocrat in spirit." Mrs. King called the Rabbi "One of the great men of our times," and in an apparent reference to President Nixon said, "In a day when we have a would-be emporor and king' 'Heschel's voice will be missed. William D. Davies, professor of ■. Christian Origins at Duke University, delivered a eulogy on behalf of the "non-Jewish world" and praised Heschel's public outcry against repression of minorities in the United States and against the Viet¬ nam war. ~ r-
NEW YORK (WNS)-The Soviet Union apparently has no intention of rescinding the education tax levied on emigrants with academic degrees, observers here said. They said the first official publication in Moscow,, , 0. this week of the diploma tax law adopted August 3 and the regulations governing the scale of payments, in effect since Dec. 26, seems to indicate the Kremlin does not intend to back down in face of widespread criticism.. As long as it remained unpublished, they said, Soviet authorities could have cancelled the tax without loss of face.
The published regulations indicate that the school from which an emigrant graduated also determines the amount of the tax. The highest tax is demanded of graduates of Moscow University, the Soviet Union's most prestigious institution of higher learning.
Jewish Leaders Express Sorrow At President Johnson Death
NEW YORK, (JTA)» American Jewish leaders expressed shock and sorrow . at the death of former President Johnson. They were unanimous in their praise of Johnson as a man who greatly aided Israel. . The Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, speaking at a ■farewell gathering; spon- ' sored by the National J Committee for Labor Israel, i said Johnson was "one of the presidents who have done so much in support of Israel." American Jewish Com¬ mittee president Philip E. Hoffman said "the Jewish community has united in its admiration of Mr. Johnson's deep humanity, especially appreciating his support of Israel during its most trying hours."
American ' Zionist Federation president Rabbi Israel Miller said "President Johnson will be remembered by Zionists everywhere as the man, who once con¬ vinced of the rightoess of Israel's cause, remained steadfast in his support of
Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the American Section of the World Zionist Organization, said "We Jews knew him (Johnson) as a man of tolerance who always advocated quality for all
peoples and as a true friend of Israel who believed in its strength was the best guarantee of Middle East peace." j.
Mrs. Rose E. Matzkin, president of Hadassah, sent a telegram of condolence to Mrs. Johnson on behalf' of Hadassah's 325,000 mem¬ bers. At a memorial service in Hadassah House for the late President, Mrs. Matzkin noted his friendship for brad and understanding of its problems. She observed that during the Six-Day War, his firm support at that time was a dramatic demon¬ stration of U.S. com¬ mittment to the security and integrity of the Jewish State.
B'nai B'rith Anti- Defamation League national chairman Seymour Graubard said Johnson "understood the significance of Israel to American Jews as well as their commitment to human rights. His leadership. in achieving historic civil rights legislation put into law the guarantees which, Jews and all minorities sought in order; to fulfill the promise of the American Dream."
Zionist Organization of America president Herman L. Weisman said "Zionists will particularly remember
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
. The 1973 Campaign of the United Jewish Fund and Council was kicked off on Thursday evening, Jan. 11, at a meeting held at the home of-Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Melton. The gifts. of the gathering of 26 key leaders and donors totaled $545,000. This was the largest total ever announced for so many gifts, representing $90,000 of additional funds beyond that contributed by the same people last year.
The meeting was called by Ernest Stern, 1973 Campaign Chairman, and Millard Cummins, Advance Gifts Chairman to learn of the' concerns which confront1 Columbus and World Jewry. The 1973 story was presented by Dr. Bernard Cherrick, Executive Vice President of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Dr. Cherrick reviewed the history of the State of Irael for the past 25 years, tracing its development from the early 40's _until_now^JfIe-, "re1rrunae3"everyone that its formation was necessitated by the holocaust which befell European Jewry during World War II, and that the formal creation of the State of Israel might not have come to fruition at that time if the British and Arabs bad not closed the doors to the immigrants who sought refuge there. That challenge continued'as the decades of theSO's, 60's and 70's brought waves of Jewish immigrants from the oppressed coun¬ tries of the world to Israel in search of freedom. HeA pointed out that major catastrophes had been avoided for the large
numbers of North African, Syrian, Iraqi, arid Yeminite Jews who fled to Israel whenever the gates of these countries were • opened, avoiding the poverty, tor¬ ture, and persecution now being experienced by those who remained.
Dr. Cherrick stated: "Who knows but that this same situation will be avoided
again by those Russian Jews r who are making the decision to come to Israel now. The miracle of Russian Jewry being allowed to leave, ' cannot be explained, along with the miracle of how the Jews of Russia, alienated from their religion, have suddenly come back to Judaism and courageously choose to be subjected to
harrassment, loss of jobs, and persecution because they request visa's to go to Israel. We must not fail them. That is why the challenge of the 70's is the greatest challenge of all." He further explained that the reason the 1973 goal of the United Jewish Appeal is so large is because there has
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
Pictured above are scenes from the Special Gifts Meeting, held on January 11, at home of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Melton.
PARTICIPANTS IN PROGRAM: (top left) Left to right: Millard Cummins, Advance 'Gifts Chairman; Mrs. Samuel M. Melton, Hostess; Dr. Bernard Cherrick, Executive Vice President Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Samuel M. Melton, Host; Ernest Stern, General Chairman 1973 Campaign. , '
LEADERSHIP ATTENDING MELTON MEETING (top right): Left to right: Edwin M. Ellman,Melvin Schottenstein, Robert Click, Leon Handler and John B. Resler.
1973 ADVANCE GIFTS CO-CHAIRMAN (bottom left): Edwin M. Ellman, Dr. Bernard Cherrick, Executive Vice President of Hebrew University; Envin Cohen, Dr.B.B. Caplan, Louis Robins, not present. ;;;%' if.
PAST UJFC CAMPAIGN CHAIRMEN at MELTON MEETING;(bottom right): Seated Left to Right: Speaker of the evening, Dr. Bernard Cherrick; Abel. Yenkin, Gordon B. Zacks: Standing Left to Right: William L. Click, Marvin L. Glassman, Morris Skilken, Norman Meizlish and Ernest Stern.
RABBIS REACT
Abortion Ruling
Different Views
by BILL COHEN
CHRONICLE
SPECIAL REPORTER
' Columbus-area rabbis have several different views of abortion, according to an informal poll by The Chronicle, following last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that states have no right to restrict abortions during trie •first three months of pregnancy.
The ruling, by a 7-2 margin, ■;. declared that present abortion law in Texas and Georgia is un¬ constitutional. In effect, the decision also appeared to do the same to Ohio's similar restrictions on abortion.
■ f'The traditional Jewish stand on abortions is that it is only permissable to save the life of the mother," said Rabbi Jeff Siegal, the Chassidic Orthodox rabbi at the Hillel Foundation. "Although not considered'
murder," Siegal continued, "it is the destruction of potential life which is, in and of itself, precious."
Siegal called on unmarried Jewish women who become pregnant to go ahead and have their baby "since, especially in the Jewish community, there is such a demand for children for
adoption. There is a tremendous shortage, and any child that is given birth would be adopted into a loving, home," he added.
Asked about the apparent contradiction between traditional Jewish law against abortion and general Jewish support for liberalized abortion' laws,
Siegal explained, "Jewish tradition has always been in favor of the Jew being in the vanguard of social action and change. However, most Jews today are not that theologically interested and . knowledgable in Jewish law. Culturally, though, they receive the tradition of
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
Court Will Hear Appeal On Parochial Law
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Jan. 22 to hear an appeal against a New York State parochial law. The Com¬ mittee for Public Education ' and Religious - Liberty . (PEARL) said it was "deeply gratified" by the high court's action. The appeal stems from the case of PEARL v. Nyquist (N.Y. State Education Com¬ missioner Ewald Nyquist), The PEARL suit was aimed at a three-part law enacted
by the State Legislature and signed by Gov. Rockefeller in May, , 1972i
Two parts of the law, ruled unconstitutional by a FederaP District Court, last October, provided building maintenance grants of up to $4 million a year for repairs, heat, light and cleaning for nonpublic schools in densely populated urban areas; and provided direct state payments of $50 per elementary school pupil and $100 per secondary school
pupil to' low income parochial school parents.
The PEARL appeal which the Supreme Court has agreed to hear, is against the third part of the law, upheld by the Federal Court, which provides income tax credits for middle income parents of parochial school1 children. According to the law, families with incomes between $5000425,000 a year could deduct up to $3000 from their taxable income in
(CONTINUED ON PAGET 71
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